Visiting Cambridge and Manchester

New visit to our friends of Anglia Rusklin University in Cambridge and NOVARS in Manchester.

The plan was double: introducing noTours to the Music Technology Department of the Anglia Ruskin University and presenting the new features of our platform to NOVARS composers.

After meeting Bronac Ferran, who has invited us to start a noTours project in the context of Visualise in Cambridge,Â I introduced noTours to Tom Hall and Till Bovermann (artist visiting the department and developing an interesting project using Beta Blocker). I had the opportunity of making some demos that you see in the photos (by Till). I always had the support of Julio dÂ´Escrivan that is the real iniciator of all these things happening in Cambridge.

I am so glad that the Southampton based composer Benjamin Mawson came and shared with us some of his work. Benjamin composes digital music that could not be played by humans, focusing on virtual environments and spatialization of sound sources.Â I think we soon will organize something together!

The plan for the moment in Cambridge is the composition of a soundwalk in collaboration with the Music Technology Department and his students. The process will follow our methodology: workshop+production+exhibition.

Julio and me (just like pilgrims) arrived Manchester on Wednesday evening. He had to play and premiere some of his live electronics works and I was going to meet some NOVARS composers that I worked with last June. I introduced some of the improvements that Horacio and me have done in the last months. Many of them were actually requests from these composers so we kind of closed the circle.

The visit was again amazing. Incredible people working there. The conclusion was that we wanted to work more together (letÂ´s see how…).

About noTours

NoTours is a project by Escoitar.org that allows editing a place with sounds. This means that you can attach sounds to a territory and that later, when you go physically to that place you can listen to them. The trick is using our noTours Android Application that detects your location (via GPS) and plays your audios exactly in the place where you decided.

NoTours proposes an augmented aurality experience. In other words, you can add a new layer of reality to your place. You can leave messages, tell stories, create geolocated concerts or just share your thoughts.
The team of noTours.org is looking forward to know your ideas and your possible uses. In fact we are artists and developers. Take a look at some of the sound walks we have made in the world.